Welcome to the chaos we call our life & family!

My DH often says this is the chaos we like to call our family, or something to that effect. To answer the basic questions we here often: Yes! With 7 children we are busy! Yes! It often gets hectic, chaotic, crazy, & overwhelming, we love it anyway! No! We do not wish we had a smaller family we can't imagine our lives with less children, we love them all! Yes! It's tricky co-ordinating everyones schedules thank goodness for the FLYlady calendar (if you haven't heard of FLYlady I really recommend looking up her site!). Yes! We do cook a LOT of food, and we eat all or most of it in one sitting! No! You probably do not want to see our grocery bill, or how much we spend on clothes, footwear, sports, etc. each year! ;-) UPDATE: We now have 5 of the original 7 that are 18 & under so we have moved up to college, 2 high schoolers, & just 1 elementary school student at home. We have added a wonderful daughter-in-law and beautiful granddaughter with our oldest. Our 2nd oldest is currently serving an LDS Mission in the Philippines & loving it!

Chaos, maybe, boring, NEVER! There is almost always something going on in our home, never a dull moment from the adult perspective anyway... you know kids, if it gets "too quiet" they are sure it's a sign of being bored! LOL

In 2008 we moved into a new "project home" I have posted some of the fun & craziness that has happened while replacing flooring, adding a furnace, roof, pantry, texture to the walls redoing a kitchen and still more to come, feel free to join us for the ride as we continue to upgrade our home! It has been interesting to say the very least!

Thursday, November 21, 2013

WEEK 12 - My Holiday Planning

Next week is Thanksgiving, do you have a menu planned for Thanksgiving, have you made all your travel arrangements, what do you need to pick up for guests? Get it all arranged this week so you aren't in the stores with all the last minute shoppers, so you can relax & enjoy your holiday next week. Plan your have to buy close to the holiday items for Monday before the stores get too crazy.

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Jordan & Stacia

About Me

About me... well some say I could write a book, I used to say I’ll design a website instead, & I did. Now I have a blog, my friend said I needed to have one so she could keep up with me that afternoon I decided to do just that, I had nothing else to do with 7 kids! LOL
I am wife to Jordan, my best friend, mother to 3 boys; ages 22, 19, & 16, 4 girls; ages 16(twin), 15, 13, & 6, 2 hyper dogs, every kid that walks in our home. I love to cook (dinner is huge at our house most nights!), love to bake (the kids like that; brownies, cookies, cake you name it!), excel at organizing (again very important with a large family), love people (my merchandising work allows me to work with people & the flexibility that I need for my family), enjoy being a homemaker (with a 6 bedroom house that needs a few hundred things done to update it, lots of TLC), enjoy scrapbooking (great times with my friends & remember all the cute things my kids did on days that they aren’t being so cute & a great creative outlet!), and a major SHE (which makes me really good at lots of things & a bit overwhelmed some days, thank goodness for FLYlady!), and a bit of a computer & information nut!